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After reading some of the latest tweets of the one and only Kanye West, aka Yeezy, I was inspired to analyze his natal chart. Firstly, Kanye West’s birth date alone provides a gateway into his crazy world. Born when the Sun was skipping through Gemini and on the 8th day, Kanye can’t help but to speak his frenetic mind in an attempt to further his ambitions. 8 is the number of Saturn according to Chaldean numerology. People born on the 8th are often extremely ambitious, business-oriented, and drawn to high positions in life. With Kanye being a Gemini, the energy of the number 8 is channeled into a variety of pursuits from music production to fashion design. 8 people have a tremendous ability to attract large sums of money via industry or government. Career is everything to 8 people and they are willing to work hard to get to the top of their field. Kanye is no exception. However, the number 8 is one of destiny and with it comes a heavy dose of karma that cannot be escaped in the present incarnation. 8 can bring one to tremendous heights in terms of status and wealth, but when the wheel turns downward, there’s not much that can be done to mitigate the destined misfortune. Kanye West may certainly be experiencing the downside of his destiny at the moment. Here are some of his recent tweets:

I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt… Please pray we overcome… This is my true heart…

Kanye is now making a plea to Mark Zuckerberg to invest in his continued success. With Kanye being born on the 8th, it is not surprising since 8’s have the ability to rally investors around their cause. Rarely does 8 want to go into their own pockets to fund a major project. 8 is the number of corporations in fact. People born under the number 8 are prone to stinginess, miserliness, and avarice when it comes to their personal stash. An 8 can never have enough money or wealth. The energy of the number 8 can also bring marriages that are based on status, reputation and business. Think about Kanye West’s marriage to Kim Kardashian. Most would agree that there’s not much if any love present between the two. The marriage being more of a strategic business decision than a union of love.

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Now, let’s delve into his natal chart. Right away I noticed that Kanye West has a conjunction (when two planets are adjacent to each other resulting in a blending of energies) between his Sun and Jupiter. This is very interesting given that West uses the alias “Yeezus” a play on the name Jesus. Jupiter represents religion and also god-like status. Jupiter combined with the Sun can make Kanye a megalomaniac since the Sun represents the ego and Jupiter enlarges anything that it touches. This aspect alone points to Kanye’s god complex. It also brings overconfidence and braggadocios behavior. With the Sun and Jupiter being in Gemini, it explains his unfiltered mouthpiece. He couldn’t stop talking if he tried.

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Now let’s look at Mercury, the planet of the conscious mind and communication. West’s Mercury is in Taurus which can be part of his saving grace. Had Mercury been in Gemini along with his Sun and Jupiter, there may not be any method to his mercurial madness. Mercury in Taurus gives him some practicality, stability and allows him to focus on ideas which can actually manifest into tangible products and services. Mercury in Taurus also explains his avid interest in fashion. The only aspect Mercury forms to other planets is a sesquisquare to Pluto. Mercury in challenging aspect to Pluto can produce diarrhea of the mouth, a chronic condition which Kanye seems to have. Pluto’s negative effect on Mercury can also manifest as obsessive-compulsive thoughts and activities. With Mercury-Pluto speech is over-the-top, intense and provocative. Think about some of West’s antics over the years such as his infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” uttered after the New Orleans flood tragedy and the time he interrupted Taylor Swift’s award speech to undermine her merit in favor of Beyoncé. Mercury-Pluto aspects–especially the challenging ones can result in the natives only recognizing two extremes when it comes to their ideas, decisions and immediate environment: control or be controlled.

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West’s Moon is in Pisces and it forms a square to Neptune. This makes Kanye West prone to delusion and it makes it difficult for him to deal with the reality of situations. He may also be beset with bouts of paranoia. This challenging aspect between Kanye’s Moon and Neptune also deals with the death of his mother, Donda West since the Moon represents mothers and Neptune deals with sorrow, loss, and sacrifice. Thus the death of his mother has brought Kanye a great deal of mental turmoil and maybe even some guilt. Perhaps he feels that his mother was a sacrifice in exchange for being famous. Challenging aspects between the Moon and Neptune may cause West to become a recluse later in life–especially if he cannot make all of his fantasies come true. While the Moon in Pisces is a testament to his musical talent and artistic abilities, it being in square to Neptune can result in a form of self-imprisonment/containment where he cannot think outside of his own bejeweled box. He believes he is perfect as-is and is hyper-sensitive to any perceived slights to his work. As a result, he is at risk for falling behind the times, sinking into his own sea of irrelevance as old fans flock to that which is more relatable.

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A T-square between Kanye’s Sun/Jupiter, Moon and Neptune is present. T-squares in Astrology can bring significant life challenges and it can often be indication of a personality disorder (especially when the Sun, Moon or Mercury is involved) or Achilles’ heal. When analyzing T-squares it is wise to focus on the anchor which in this case is the Moon and the missing leg (the sign opposite the anchor which is not occupied by any planets) which is Virgo. Virgo if occupied, would give Kanye a degree of humility and it would cause him to be more critical of himself–which he certainly needs. Virgo would provide the system of checks and balances so that his ego would not run amok. Kanye needs this Virgo energy to balance out the dominant energy of Gemini, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Since Kanye lacks this Virgo energy, his personality (the Moon) runs wild–unchecked. The T-square is an indication that his self-deified image will be subject to slander, ridicule, and debasement (the influence of Neptune) and that this will be largely of his own making. Since the Sun is involved in this T-square, Kanye may have not received the praise and attention from his father that he believed he deserved. His Saturn, which can also deal with his relationship with his father, is in Leo which points to a tendency to overcompensate in the area of ego-orientation. Saturn in Leo can make one yearn for fame or at the very least the undivided attention that was lacking in one’s formative years.His Saturn is in square to his Uranus which could point to an abrupt or unexpected separation from the father.Saturn square Uranus can also point to a shunning of reality in favor of being unique, progressive, or cutting edge.

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Kanye West has both Mars and Venus in Taurus and they are right on top of each other. This also lends to West’s flair for fashion. It explains his continued efforts to make a name for himself in the fashion world. The problem with Mars and Venus being so close together is that he lacks proper perspective and objectivity when it comes to what others desire in terms of fashion. He has a problem putting himself in others shoes. He also cannot accept constructive criticism without feeling personally attacked. If Kanye is not careful, his fashion endeavors could be the source of his financial downfall as it appears that he will indiscriminately invest an insane amount of money to develop his fashion line. He has an opposition between his Mars/Venus coupling and Uranus, and while wide in orb, this aspect’s influence can still be witnessed in West’s alternative ideas when it comes to fashion. For instance his fashion line was greatly panned for being akin to clothes for the homeless. A blogger from the Root.com described Kanye’s fashion line as “A hot mess of tattered clothing”. He also pushed the idea of leather jogging pants which were not well received by fashion critics and the masses. His Nike Air Yeezy line of sneakers did not bring him the acclaim a la Air Jordans, he so desperately sought. He’s now with Adidas after having a falling out with Nike. With this opposition between Mars/Venus and Uranus, Kanye runs the risk of ostracizing himself from fans, followers and potential investors when he goes too far left in his designs.

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Does Kanye West suffer from a mental illness or personality disorder? According to his chart I would say that he suffers from mental challenges in the form of delusions of grandeur and an inability to relinquish control in all situations. What Kanye suffers from may not warrant an official diagnosis however. He may have a bit of narcissistic personality disorder, but I believe for the most part, Kanye West is lucid, albeit with a generous dose of irrationality. When he goes on these Twitter tirades, he knows full well what he’s doing as well as the response that he is likely to receive. For him, any attention is good attention. The critics and detractors are reduced to haters and those who don’t get him are simply un-evolved in his eyes. As long as Kanye West remains in the public eye, I believe he will remain mentally intact. It’s the inevitable dying of the limelight that may cause him to break psychologically. As long as Kanye has an audience in which to derive praise and adulation his magnanimous sense of self will be sustained. No audience, no Kanye. Irrelevance and obsolescence being his greatest fears.

When it comes to relationships most people want to achieve the social ideal which is to enter into a marriage or a lifelong commitment. When it comes to determining relationship compatibility it’s important to establish what kind of relationship person you are. Being aware of your relationship needs can save you a great deal of heartache and pain. One of the best ways to discover your ideal relationship dynamic is to get a natal chart interpretation.

I do not believe in the notion that everyone is relationship-oriented nor do I believe that everyone is destined to enter into a long-term fulfilling relationship. I also do not believe in the common assertion that there is someone for everyone. Some people are destined to go through life as a single person due to where they are at on the spectrum of spiritual evolution. On the other hand, others are destined to experience the bond that comes with marriage or a life partnership. This does not mean that the latter is more spiritually evolved than the former, however. It all boils down to what is needed for a particular individual’s spiritual evolution.

Either a person is relationship-oriented or he/she is not. According to my definition, a relationship-oriented person will be able to remain in one relationship for an extended period of time—usually spanning over 7 years. I designate 7 years as the baseline since it reflects the 7-year cycle of Saturn (28 years/4), the planet of time, commitment, responsibility and longevity. Thus, if a person can remain in one relationship for 7 or more years you can generally consider that person to be relationship-oriented. Keep in mind that when I refer to the term “relationship-oriented”, I am referring to a long-term, harmonious and monogamous commitment or marriage.

Certain astrological configurations can determine whether a person will be relationship-oriented (in the traditional, long-term monogamous sense) or not. For instance one or more of the following aspects may be present in a person’s chart who is NOT relationship-oriented:

Sun conjunct Uranus

Moon square Sun

Moon opposition Saturn

Moon square Pluto

Moon square Uranus

Venus square Saturn

Venus square Uranus

Venus conjunct Uranus

Mars square Venus

Mars opposition Venus

Usually, people with these aspects will still try to go against their own grain, attempting to fit a square peg into a round hole even if it’s just about keeping up with the Jones’s. These are the kinds of people who you will find in multiple short-term relationships that usually last no longer than 3 years. Their relationships are often not clearly defined and they may be filled with a great deal of turmoil. You may find that this kind of person falls in and out of love very easily. They may also not give much prior thought when it comes to choosing a mate, but they may also bemoan the fact that true love eludes them. They do not realize that the relationship model that works for some people is not designed to work for them. Perhaps, they have been told by ex-partners that they are self-absorbed, inconsiderate and afraid of commitment. For some this may be true, but for others they may simply be misunderstood.

Some individuals who have some of these astrological aspects are very self-aware and consciously make it a point not to become too attached. For example, I know of a man who is 55 years old, has never been married and does not have any kids. This man has even said that he could go another 10 years before he settles down with one woman. He has Moon opposition Saturn, Venus square Mars, Sun conjunct Uranus and Moon semisquare Sun in his natal chart. His brother tells him that he is destined to be a perpetual bachelor. Any woman who tries to subjugate this kind of man will end up becoming bald from pulling her hair out in frustration.

If a woman is aware that she is not relationship-oriented she may be met with criticism if she chooses to proclaim this truth. In this present day society it is far more acceptable for a man to be perpetually single than a woman. If a woman tells her friends or family members that she does not want to be in a long-term relationship she is met with sighs and comments like “you’ll find someone, don’t give up” “you just haven’t found the right one” or “your guy is out there somewhere”. Women either face pressure or pity when it comes to being single for more than 5 years straight.

It appears that more people—especially men are waking up to the reality that a marriage or life partnership is not the ideal for everyone. It would seem that the most heartache and pain occurs when one person who is relationship-oriented couples up with a person who is not. The problem is that the person who is not relationship-oriented is usually unaware that they are wired this way so they blame the other person and go in search of someone new only to wind up in the same lonely predicament. However, loneliness no longer becomes this looming threat once the person acknowledges that they are not relationship-oriented. Better choices in terms of truly compatible potential mates can then be made.

So much drama could be prevented if people knew what kind of relationship-type person they were before attempting to commit to another. Self-awareness is the first step in creating fulfilling relationships—whether they are short or long in duration.

Or the most common arguments skeptics use when they try to poke holes in it

Astrology is an incredibly ancient art, but there is at least one method of seeking The Truth that is older: doubting things. As long as there has been astrology, there have been those who didn’t (or didn’t want to) believe that it works, or could work, or could in fact have any usefulness whatsoever. For about that same amount of time, astrologers have faced most of the same objections repackaged into different forms.

If you are a person who uses astrology to make your life a better, happier, and more meaningful place… or even if you’re just open to the idea… take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the most common arguments skeptics use when they try to poke holes in it. Then, next time someone tries to make you feel foolish about it; you’ll be able to provoke some real thought.

THE OBJECTION: “There are really 13 Signs, not 12, because of the constellation Ophiuchus.”THE RESPONSE: “That’s not what ‘Signs’ are.”

The whole Ophiuchus thing got a lot of press a couple of years ago, when a news story hit claiming that the 13th constellation in the Zodiac (Ophiuchus) meant you weren’t really a Virgo anymore, or whatever. You might be surprised to know that long before there was even a distinction between Astronomy and Astrology, we knew about this.

When astrologers refer to “Signs,” they are actually referring to a system that divides the sky into 12 equal sections that do in fact roughly correspond with 12 constellations, which is where those Signs get their names. But the Signs are not entirely dependent on those constellations. If that were the case, “Pisces” would take up a much larger chunk of the calendar than “Cancer,” which (visually) is a much smaller constellation. This also covers the whole argument about how The Signs keep moving over time against the backdrop of the stars — which is called “precession” — thus if you’re a Taurus you’re “really” an Aries.

THE OBJECTION: “Astrology doesn’t line up with any known force, like gravity or electromagnetism, so how can the planets influence us?”THE RESPONSE: “Take a pill.”

People have been taking acetylsalicylic acid (most commonly known as Aspirin) for a long time now to get rid of pain and inflammation. Long before Aspirin was developed, people used a very similar molecule — salicin — for the same purposes. Its use dates all the way back through known history, in the form of things like willow bark tea or wintergreen. However, it wasn’t until the 1970s that the actual physiological mechanism by which salicin works was clearly pinned down. Not knowing how a thing works doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work.

THE OBJECTION: “How can 1/12th of the people on Earth all be having exactly the same kind of day?”THE RESPONSE: “Obviously, they aren’t.”

“Sun Signs” are the great double-edged sword of modern astrology. On the one hand, everyone knows their birthday and can look up their “Sign,” and can see certain personality traits of that Sign that line up with their own. Astrology, like humans, is a lot more complex than just that. Most people get into astrology because a birthday is easy to look up… but how many people know how to find their Moon Sign or Mars Sign or Jupiter Sign, which all have a bearing on your life and personality too?

If your parents were alcoholics, that doesn’t mean you automatically become one too. If your first business went bankrupt, it doesn’t mean subsequent ventures will fail too. And if you’re a Scorpio, no… you’re not always seeking revenge against someone.

THE OBJECTION: “Astrologers are just making money off of the gullible!”THE RESPONSE: “Got any stock tips?”

The argument that something is a scam just because someone makes money off of it is an interesting one. In fact it can be used to dismiss the validity of pretty much anything a person can make a living at. “Drugs don’t work — pharmaceutical companies are just exploiting the fears of the sick!” “I’m still depressed — psychiatry is a scam!” “It rained at the company picnic… meteorology is a fraud!” and “I pay my investment adviser plenty, and I’m STILL not a billionaire!” all come immediately to mind.

Okay: maybe there’s some validity to that last argument. Long term stock predictions have been demonstrated time and again to usually be about as accurate as throwing darts at the Stock market page and choosing your investments that way. Also: believe me, there are a LOT of ways to make a living that pay better than being an astrologer… like being an investment adviser, for example.

THE OBJECTION: “Other planets have been discovered since Astrology began, so how can that old Astrology still be accurate?”THE RESPONSE: “I have a bone to pick with you.”

This is one of my favorite objections to Astrology, because it’s one of the most fun to pick apart. Long before medicine determined how cells differentiate into different body parts, medicine still managed to figure out that there are different body parts. Yes, (shockingly!) thousands of years ago healers could tell the difference between a broken fibula and an infected wound, and they knew which one to put in a splint and which one to plaster herbs on. This, despite not having college dark degrees. Likewise, the roles of the Sun and the Moon in the birth chart remain the same, even though we now have Uranus and Neptune to work with.

Astrology has been used successfully for thousands of years, and it’s only relatively recently that it has fallen so out of favor with the intelligentsia. Of course, science is an incredibly good and useful thing… but it’s not every idea that gets sufficient funding to properly test and experiment upon. Also: a lot of ideas that mainstream science “believes” in have not been demonstrated properly yet anyway. Billions of dollars in research salaries and scientific instruments have gone into finding out what “dark matter” is — the mysterious force/substance that explains how much of the Universe appears to work — and yet so far we haven’t found any. That doesn’t mean the Physics Department of your local University is filled with con artists.

THE OBJECTION: “Isn’t Astrology just another form of bigotry?”THE RESPONSE: “Sure… if you’re a bigot.”

Yes, there are people out there who will say things like “don’t date him, he’s an Aquarius and they’re unfaithful” or “I’d never hire a Gemini because they’re too scattered” or “don’t get a dog unless it’s a Virgo, otherwise it’ll be too messy” and so on. That sort of thing isn’t astrology’s fault… it’s how people use it to back up their own biases. The same impulses that make people look down their nose at others based on ethnicity or religion or handedness or belief in astrology or whatever can just as easily be twisted around into astrological terms. Having said that: Yes, Virgo dogs are usually fairly easy to housebreak, in my experience.